Merwin Clayton Sales Company: RARE BOOKS AND AUTOGRAPH. THE FINE PRIVATE LIBRARY OF THE LATE DR. O. S. ROBERTS OF PITTSFIELD, MASS. TO BE SOLD AT AUCTION UPON THE ORDER OF THE PROBATE COURT IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF BERKSHIRE, MASSACHUSETTS FRIDAY MORNING AND AFTERNOON JANUARY 24, 1913, 492,

Auction Details

Auction Date
January 24, 1913 - January 24, 1913
Page Size: 658 items in 7 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
495 Theodore Ayrault Dodge CIVIL WAR. A Bird's-Eye View of Our Civil War. Boston

1884

USD - 1.00
496 James L. Bohen CIVIL WAR. History of the Thirty-Seventh Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers, in the Civil War. Holyoke, Massachusetts

1884

USD - Unknown
497 General La Fayette C. Baker CIVIL WAR. The United States Secret Service in the Late War. Phila.

(1890)

USD - Unknown
498 Louis F. Emilio CIVIL WAR. History of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. 1863-1865. Boston

1891

USD - 1.75
499 CLEVELAND (GROVER) The Writings and Speeches of Grover Cleveland. Portrait. New York

(1892)

USD - 1.25
500 CLEMENS (SAMUEL L.) A Tramp Abroad. London

1882

USD - Unknown
501 CLEMENS (SAMUEL L.) A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. New York

1889

USD - 3.00
502 CLEMENS (SAMUEL L.) The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson, And the Comedy. Hartford

1894

USD - 2.25
503 CLEMENS (SAMUEL L.) Following the Equator. A Journey Around the World. Hartford

1898

USD - 2.00
504 COLLINS (PATRICK A.) Life of Patrick A. Collins. Norwood

1906

USD - 1.00
505 Alfred R. Conkling CONKLING. The Life and Letters of Roscoe Conkling, Orator, Statesman. New York

1889

USD - 1.00
506 COX (SAMUEL S.) Three Decades of Federal Legislation 1855-85. Providence, R. I.

1885

USD - 2.10
507 COX (SAMUEL S.) Diversions of a Diplomat in Turkey. New York

1887

USD - Unknown
508 DAVIS (RICHARD HARDING) Captain Macklin;--The King's Jacket;--Ranson's Folly;--Soldiers of Fortune;--Gallagher;--The Lion ... New York

1904

USD - 3.00
509 DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. Christmas in the Olden Time (Scott) and 24 others.

USD - Unknown
510 DE COLANGE (LEO.--Editor) A Tour of the World. Its Famous Cities and Strange Peoples, Their Histories, Religions, and ... New York

(1896)

USD - 1.10
511 DELAND (MARGARET) Florida Days. Boston

1889

USD - 1.50
512 Gardner F. Williams DIAMOND MINES of South Africa (The). New York

1905

USD - 3.25
513 F. O. C. Darley DICKENS (CHARLES). Character Sketches from Dickens. Boston

1892

USD - Unknown
514 DICTIONARY. Thesaurus Dictionary of the English Language. Designed to Suggest Immediately any ... Phila.

(1902)

USD - 8.00
515 DOYLE Conan Doyle's Best Books. New York

n. d.

USD - 1.10
516 A. B. Lloyd DWARF LAND AND CANNIBAL COUNTRY (In). A Record of Travel and Discovery in Central Africa. New York

1907

USD - Unknown
517 EGYPT. A Miracle in Stone (Seiss);--A Journey to Egypt and the Holy Land (Harman). Phila.

1877-73

USD - 1.10
518 Editor-in-Chief, F. C. Beach ENCYLCOPEDIA AMERICANA (THE). A General Dictionary of the Arts and Sciences, Literature, History ... New York and Chicago

(1903-08)

USD - 1.10
518a ENGRAVING CASE. Black Walnut Show-Case on Rollers.

USD - 8.00
519 John Bartlett FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS. Being an Attempt to trace to their Sources, Passages and Phrases in Common Use. Boston

1882

USD - 1.00
520 FARRAR (REV. FREDERICK W.) Men I Have Known. New York

(1897)

USD - Unknown
521 FERGUSON (ADAM) The History of the Progress and Termination of the Roman Republic. Edinburgh

1828

USD - 1.10
522 FICTION (RECENT) The Leopard's Spots (Dixon);--The Kentuckians (Fox);--The Gentleman from Indiana (Tarkington);--The ...

USD - 1.90
523 FICTION (RECENT) The Quaker Soldier;--The Priest and the Man;--Philip Mae Gregor (Newton);--Standish of Standish ( ...

USD - 1.00
524 FLAGG (JOHN H.) The Monarch and other Poems. New York

1902

USD - Unknown
525 FLORIDA. Across the Everglades; a Canoe Journey of Exploration. Phila.

1898

USD - 1.00
526 FLOWERY KINGDOM and the Land of the Mikado (Northrop), 1894;--Great Things of the World (Northrop ...

USD - Unknown
527 Edited by John Williamson Palmer FOLK SONGS. Selected and Edited by John Williamson Palmer. New York

1867

USD - 1.20
528 FOOLISH DICTIONARY (Wurdz);--Letters from Hell;--Infelicia (Adah Isaacs Menken);--Shakespeare's ...

USD - Unknown
529 Albert G. Mackay FREE-MASONRY. A Lexicon of Free-Masonry. Phila.

1860

USD - Unknown
530 FREE-MASONRY. History of the Ancient and Honorable Fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons, and ... Boston

1891

USD - 1.00
531 A. B. Frost FROST. Book (A) of Drawings. New York

1904

USD - Unknown
532 Thomas Carlyle FROUDE (J. A.). Caesar;--Reminiscences. New York

1879-81

USD - Unknown
533 GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY. Memorial Biographies of the New England Historical Genealogical Society. Boston

1885

USD - Unknown
534 John Clark Ridpath GLADSTONE. Life and Times of William E. Gladstone. An Account of His Ancestry, Career at Eton and ... Cincinnati

(1898)

USD - Unknown
535 GLIMPSES OF THE WORLD. A Portfolio of Photograph (J. L. Stoddard), 1892;--Beauties of Paris (J. W ... Chicago and Boston

USD - 1.10
536 GOUGH (JOHN B.) Autobiography and Personal Recollections of John B. Gough. Springfield

1870

USD - Unknown
537 GRANT (U. S.) Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant. New York

1885

USD - 1.50
538 HILL (FREDERICK TREVOR) Decisive Battles of the Law. 1800 and 1886. New York

1907

USD - 1.25
539 HISTORICAL Guide Books and Pamphlets (14).

USD - Unknown
540 HISTORY OF NEW YORK (Irving) (lacks few pages of vol. one);--Mark Twain's Autobiography. Second ...

USD - 1.25
541 HOAR (GEORGE F.) Autobiography of Seventy Years. New York

1903

USD - 3.10
542 HOLMES (O. W.) Over the Teacups. First Edition, 1891;--The Last Leaf. Boston and Cambridge

USD - Unknown
543 HORSES. General Grant's Arabian Horses. Presented to Him by the Sultan of Turkey in 1879. Also their ... (Philadelphia)

1885

USD - 1.00
544 INDIANS. A Century of Dishonor. A Sketch of the U. S. Government's dealings with the Indian Tribes. New York

1881

USD - Unknown
545 INDIANS. A Narrative of the Captivity of Mrs. Johnson. Springfield

1907

USD - Unknown
546 O. O. Howard INDIANS. Famous Indian Chiefs I Have Known. New York

1908

USD - Unknown
547 INDIANS. The Indian Captive; or, a Narrative of the Captivity and Sufferings of Zadock Steele. Springfield

1908

USD - 1.25
548 INTERNATIONAL MONTHLY (THE). A Magazine of Contemporary Thought. Vols 1-3. Burlington, Vermount

1900-01

USD - 1.25
549 Edited by Frank Moore Colby INTERNATIONAL YEAR BOOK (THE). A Compendium of the World's Progress. New York

1908-10

USD - Unknown
550 Thomas Patrick Hughes ISLAM. Dictionary of Islam. Being a Cyclopaedia of the Doctrines, Rites, etc., of the Mohammadan ... New York

1885

USD - 5.00
551 LARNED (J. N.) Seventy Centuries of the Life of Mankind. In a Survey of History from the Earliest Known Records to ... Springfield

1905

USD - 2.75
552 Edward E. Hale, Editor-in-Chief LIBRARY OF INSPIRATION AND ACHIEVEMENT. New York

n. d.

USD - 3.75
553 Alonzo Rothschild LINCOLN (ABRAHAM). Lincoln, Master of Men. A Study in Character. Boston

1909

USD - 1.50
554 Originally Edited by Joseph Thomas LIPPINCOTT. Complete (A) Pronouncing Gazeeteer, or Geographical Dictionary of the World. Phila.

1904

USD - 6.00
555 Joseph Thomas LIPPINCOTT'S Universal Pronouncing Dictionary of Biography and Mythology. Phila.

1905

USD - 5.50
556 LOGAN (JOHN A.) The Volunteer Soldier of America. Chicago

1887

USD - Unknown
557 LONGFELLOW (H. W.) Skeleton in Armor, 1877;--Evangeline, 1883;--Birth-Day Book (1881). Boston

USD - Unknown
558 LORD (JOHN) Beacon Lights of History. New York

1883-88

USD - 5.25
559 Francois-Xavier Martin LOUISIANA. The History of Louisiana. New Orleans

1882

USD - Unknown
560 J. K. Hosmer LOUISIANA PURCHASE. The History of the Louisiana Purchase. New York

1902

USD - Unknown
561 Edward Everett Hale LOWELL. James Russell Lowell and His Friends. Boston

1899

USD - 1.00
562 MACAULAY (LORD) The History of England from the Accession of James the Second. 5 vols. Miscellaneous Works. Edited ... New York

n. d.

USD - 3.00
563 G. Otto Trevelyan MACAULAY (LORD). The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay. New York

n. d.

USD - Unknown
564 MARTIN (HENRI) A Popular History of France, From the First Revolution to the Present Time. Boston

n. d.

USD - 3.00
565 MASONIC. The Vocal Companion, and Masonic Register. In Two Parts. Anthems, Songs, Toasts, etc., and ... Boston

1802

USD - Unknown
566 MASSACHUSETTS. The Berkshire Jubilee, Celebrated at Pittsfield, Aug. 22-23, 1844 (with poem and ... Albany

1845

USD - 1.00
567 J. G. Holland MASSACHUSETTS. History of Western Massachusetts. Springfield

1855

USD - 1.50
568 J. E. A. Smith MASSACHUSETTS. The History of Pittsfield. From 1734 to 1800. Boston

1869

USD - 1.20
569 Elias Nason MASSACHUSETTS. A Gazetteer of the State of Massachusetts. Boston

1874

USD - Unknown
570 MASSACHUSETTS. The Centennial Celebration and Centennial History of the Town of Lee, Mass. Springfield

1878

USD - Unknown
571 MASSACHUSETTS. History of Berkshire County, Massachusetts, with Biographical Sketches of its ... New York

1885

USD - 1.00
572 MASSACHUSETTS. Berkshire County, Mass. (Gazetteer of). 1725-1885. Syracuse, New York

1885

USD - Unknown
573 MASSACHUSETTS. Biographical Review. Boston

1899

USD - 1.25
574 MEDICAL PAMPHLETS, Reports, etc.

USD - 2.00
575 MICHAUD (JOSEPH FRANCOIS) The History of the Crusades. New York

n. d.

USD - Unknown
576 MILES (GEN. NELSON A.) Personal Recollections and Observations of General Nelson A. Miles. The Story of His Indian ... Chicago

1896

USD - 1.60
577 Clifton Johnson MISSISSIPPI VALLEY. Highways and Byways of the Mississippi Valley. New York

1906

USD - 1.50
578 J. H. Beadle, and O. J. Hollister MORMONS. Polygamy; or, The Mysteries and Crimes of Mormonism. N. p.

n. d.

USD - Unknown
579 MURRAY (W. H. H.) Holiday Tales. Christmas in the Adirondacks. (Springfield)

1897

USD - Unknown
580 MYRICK (HERBERT) Cache la Poudre. The Romance of a Tenderfoot in the Days of Custer. New York

1905

USD - Unknown
581 NANSEN (Dr. Frodtjof) Farthest North. Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration, 1893-96. New York

1897

USD - 2.00
582 S. G. Goodrich NATURAL HISTORY. Johnson's Natural History. Illustrating and Describing the Animal Kingdom. New York

1870

USD - 1.10
583 Paul Laurence Dunbar NEGRO MELODIES. When Malindy Sings. New York

1904

USD - 1.00
584 Edited by R. H. Howard and Henry E. Crocker NEW ENGLAND. History (A) of New England. Boston

1879

USD - Unknown
585 PARSONS (THEOPHILUS) The Personal and Property Rights of a Citizen of the United States. Hartford

1880

USD - Unknown
586 PEARY (ROBERT E.) Northward Over the Great Ice. A Narrative of Life and Work in Northern Greenland 1886, and 1891-97 ... New York

1898

USD - 2.00
587 PENN (WILLIAM) Some Fruits of Solitude in Reflections and Maxims. New York: (Edinburgh)

1903

USD - Unknown
588 PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE WORLD. Shepp's Photographs of the World, 1892; Our Land and Country, 1892 ...

USD - Unknown
589 PICTURESQUE AMERICA; or, The Land We Live In. New York

n. d.

USD - 2.00
590 Edited by Bayard Taylor PICTURESQUE EUROPE: A Delineation by Pen and Pencil of The Natural Features, etc., of Great Britain ... New York

n. d.

USD - 2.00
591 PIERCE (FRANKLIN) Federal Usurpation. New York

1908

USD - Unknown
592 POETRY. Riley Songs O'Cheer; In Clover and Heather (Bruce); Ballads of Bravery (Baker); Berkshire ...

USD - Unknown
593 POETS OF AMERICA (Local and National). Chicago

1890

USD - Unknown
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